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SCREAM IF YOU WANT TO GO FASTER
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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 | LOSSPREVENTIONMEDIA.COM
T
here is an old joke about Madame
Tussauds where the curator advises
visitors to keep moving through
the world-leading waxworks attraction
because the staff is busy stocktaking.
Although apocryphal, there is a grain of
truth in the retelling.
As with all Merlin Entertainments
venues, a profit protection team has to
carry out regular and often daily stocktakes
purely because there are dishonest people
who may—and do—try to steal anything
from waxworks models to the exotic
creatures located in the company's theme
parks around the world. Such antics make
the world of Group Profit Protection
Manager Lyn Blethyn interesting as
she surveys her estate of world-leading
entertainment brands—Merlin Resort
Theme Parks,
Midway Attractions,
and Legoland.
The Resort Theme
Parks include Alton
Towers, Chessington
World of Adventures,
Thorpe Park, and Warwick Castle, all in
the UK; Gardaland Resorts in Italy; and
Heide Park Resorts in Germany.
Midway Attractions include the historic
Madame Tussauds with twenty-four
locations in major cities around the world
including seven in the United States. Sea
Life, which is the world's largest aquarium
attraction, has fifty aquariums around
the globe providing unparalleled views of
150,000 different species that live below
the ocean's surface. Eye Brand observation
attractions provide above-ground,
360-degree views of London and Sydney,
including the iconic London Eye that is
the number one paid visitor attraction in
the UK.
Legoland is a self-contained,
self-explanatory brand offering seven
global destination locations for lovers of
all things Lego, including one in Billund,
"We are always on
vigil because of the world
that we are in. These
people are brazen. Last
year poachers broke into
a Paris zoo and killed a
rare four-year-old white
rhino to steal the horns.
Our security has to be the
best in the world."
– Lyn Blethyn, Merlin
Entertainments
Lyn Blethyn